Sun- Is Bill C-293 Canada’s ‘Vegan Act’?
Under this bill, public health officials could have the authority to close facilities they consider “high risk,” such as meatpacking plants, during pandemics and even “mandate” the consumption of vegetable proteins by Canadians — measures that border on the absurd. It’s hardly surprising that the private member who introduced Bill C-293 is Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who is known for his vegan lifestyle.
Another one bites the dust. Most SDA readers won’t be shocked.
Half the staff at a news-talk radio station’s newsroom in Kamloops were fired Tuesday.
Around 11 a.m., what was supposed to be the syndicated Mike Smyth Show was replaced with classic rock. The station was broadcasting brief The Canadian Press news updates.
In addition to bailing out the Treasury, it’s likely that the Fed lowered interest rates in order to stem the losses on its own bond portfolio as well. Whichever aspect you focus on, none of it is good news.
The “higher for longer” policy only lasted eighteen months.
The U.S. budget deficit reached $1.897 trillion in the first eleven months of the 2024 fiscal year, and annual interest costs on the public debt topped $1 trillion for the first time….Furthermore, in its own projections, the Treasury expected an increase of $16 trillion in government debt between 2024 and 2034. The Congress Budget Office estimates that the implementation of the Harris economic plan will result in a further $2.25 trillion increase in debt.
Fraser Institute- The Weakness of Corporate Investment in Canada, 2001–2021: Identification and Assessment
From 2000 to 2014, corporate investment as a share of the Canadian economy equaled or exceeded the share in the United States. The opposite was the case from 2015 to 2021.
The economic damage caused by the lockdowns was bad enough and obvious to most, but there’s another side to that travesty that is less talked about.
The lockdown babies are now starting school, and the impact of their extraordinary early days is stark. “There’s a school in Birmingham where more than half the children entering [Reception] were still wearing nappies,” says Paskins. “Before the pandemic there might have been one or two. Now more than half have that developmental delay, and what that means in terms of how children are able to learn and function.”
The other thing that was really bad about Covid and the lockdown was that we were threatened with the idea that if we passed it on to somebody, we’d almost be responsible for their death. It just made life so miserable.”
She adds: “A lot of people have never really quite recovered. I would say it took me at least two years, and even now lots of my friendships are impacted.”
Geoffrey Moyse- British Columbia could disappear under a sea of Aboriginal title
Below is the sixth of several outstanding opinion pieces about indigenous land claim issues in British Columbia that will be posted without a paywall over the next few weeks.
All are written by Geoffrey S. Moyse, K.C., a retired senior lawyer who served as legal counsel to the Province of B.C., advising six successive governments on aboriginal law matters over more than 30 years.
His writings rebut the current NDP provincial government’s indigenous land ownership and use policies.
Sun- Students attending protest told to ‘wear blue’ to mark them as ‘colonizers’
Mona, the cousin of one of students compelled to take part, told the Toronto Sun the Grade 8 student was instructed to wear a blue shirt to identify her as a “colonizer.”
“She was very upset,” Mona said of her cousin, who is Jewish and approached her teacher at the rally to express her discomfort once the anti-Israel chants began.
“The teacher told her, ‘You’ll get over it.’”
If the decline in Fedex’s earnings is not an indication that the marginal consumer is tapped out, I don’t know what is.
…Fedex stock tumbled as much as 11% after hours when it cut the top end of its full-year profit outlook and reported quarterly earnings below expectations on softer demand for package deliveries.
The company said that Q1 results were negatively affected by a mix shift, which reduced demand for priority services, increased demand for deferred services, and constrained yield growth. In addition, higher operating expenses and one fewer operating day negatively affected the quarter’s results.
Hat tip: Neil
About harm reduction sites is how they coax drug users off the street and into gas chambers.
Representatives with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS unveiled Vancouver’s first indoor safe inhalation site in the Downtown Eastside on Wednesday.
Dr. Julio Montaner, the Centre’s director and physician-in-chief, and Dr. Kate Salters, a senior researcher with the Centre, gave a tour of the soon-to-open rooms at the Hope to Health Research and Innovation Centre.
“We needed to do something more directly focused on the needs of this patient population if we’re going to get ahold of the [drug toxicity] epidemic,” Montaner said.
It looks like I picked a good week to start sniffing glue.
By the time farms are forced to go net zero, their net income statements will have beat them to that number anyway.
The University of Manitoba is getting $7.6 million in federal funds to study net-zero farming systems.
U of M researcher Martin Entz, best known for his work on organics, is the project lead.
“This is a huge amount of money. It’s certainly the largest grant that I’ve ever been involved in,” he said.
The team is also engaging with industry partners including Keystone Agricultural Producers, the National Farmers Union and Ducks Unlimited Canada to learn about sustainable agriculture initiatives…
Will the Left stop sending unambiguous messages to would-be assassins? – Victor Davis Hanson
Sun- These are Canada’s ‘Hunger Games’
In 2023, while 13.5% of Americans households grappled with food insecurity— characterized by low or very low food security (USDA-ERS, 2024) — the rate in Canada was significantly higher at 22.9% (Proof Toronto, 2024). This suggests that food insecurity in Canada is a staggering 69.6% more prevalent than in the United States — a deeply unsettling statistic.
It’s a way of life. You’re going to love it.
National Post- B.C. lawyers shouldn’t face residential school ‘denialism’ accusations for telling the truth
No ‘buried children’ have been found at the Kamloops residential school, and it’s not racist for B.C.’s mandatory training course to say so
If you think air fares are already high in Canada’s centrally planned airline market, just wait.
The airline has offered to increase the aviators’ pay by 4% annually over three years, plus an upfront 26% pay boost as well as other benefits, according to a source who asked not to be named to discuss confidential details of the agreement.
The 42% compensation increase over the four-year contract is expected to cost the carrier C$1.9 billion.
According to Mr Andersson, other academic colleagues have hailed his “queer autoethnography” as “wonderfully written, reflective, analytical and intriguing,” and have described it as “very publishable.” Readers will doubtless recall the dizzying rigour of Mr Andersson’s academic work, noted in the post linked above, in which we learned that his feverish wanking gave him “a more embodied understanding of the topic.”
On the standards of academia’s Clown Quarter, that fiefdom of progress, and an unrepentant pervert.
About progressive approaches in treating mental illness and addiction in the community, is the progress.
British Columbia will be opening secure facilities to provide involuntary care under the Mental Health Act for those with severe addictions who are mentally ill and have sustained a brain injury, the premier announced Sunday just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.
David Eby pledged a re-elected NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to “provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves.”
Eby told a news conference in Vancouver that involuntary help would be aimed at people struggling with overlapping addictions, mental illness, and brain injury concerns who are not able to ask for help for themselves.
Moneytalks- The problem isn’t what the Conservatives will or will not do. It is the tens of thousands of dentist who have refused to sign up for the plan. Here is the head of the BC Dental Association, in a MoneyTalks featured interview, explaining why.
Is the way they reduce harm.
Police in Kingston, Ont., say they’ve arrested a male suspect after a violent daytime assault left two people dead and one in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Kingston police say they arrested the suspect without further incident just before 5 p.m., after negotiating his surrender for several hours.
Spokesperson Const. Anthony Colangeli says police received reports that the suspect may have been wielding an edged or blunt weapon, possibly both.
Police say officers were called to an encampment around a safe injection site and Integrated Care Hub around 10:40 a.m. after a report of a serious assault.
And it certainly shouldn’t be your therapist.
Robert Malone- iPhone Mental Health Assessments
Bottom line- no data is 100% secure, and this is mental health data. Data that might be extremely embarrassing, career-damaging, or has the potential to disrupt family relationships. Remember, no one knows what new laws, regulations, or mores might come to pass years from now. This type of information should not be harvested and stored.
Furthermore, trusting that iPhone will never sell that data or pass it off to research groups is very naive. In fact, mental health data is already being mined.
I Will Not Eat Crickets – A book review by Rick McGinnis.
There are many recent books that share the same targets as Díaz without his satirical tone, but you have to understand up front that his target—globalism—has had a sea change in its definition and its opponents in the last generation. Back when free trade was an article of conservative political faith, the globalist worldview was embraced by people who wanted to lower costs, broaden supply chains, and – as they sold it in a best-case scenario – export economic prosperity from first to third worlds as they offshored labour.
Like most ideal scenarios, it didn’t quite work out as planned.